Inventor · Bellevue, WA, US

William H. Gates, III

34Patents
16h-index
60Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 30, 1976 → Apr 27, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7930197B2 Personal data mining Physics 586 Active
US8012023B2 Virtual entertainment Physics 348 Active
US8014308B2 Hardware architecture for cloud services Electricity 307 Active
US4135253A Centrifugal blood pump for cardiac assist Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 290 Expired
US8341405B2 Access management in an off-premise environment Physics 173 Active
US7657493B2 Recommendation system that identifies a valuable user action by mining data supplied by a plurality of users to find a correlation that suggests one or more actions for notification Physics 101 Active
US8983859B2 User centric real-time advertisement bidding Physics 39 Active
US7680908B2 State replication Electricity 34 Active
US5552982A Method and system for processing fields in a document processor Physics 28 Expired
US7689524B2 Dynamic environment evaluation and service adjustment based on multiple user profiles including data classification and information sharing with authorized other users Physics 27 Active
US8725567B2 Targeted advertising in brick-and-mortar establishments Physics 21 Active
US7716280B2 State reflection Electricity 20 Active
US8474027B2 Remote management of resource license Electricity 19 Active
US8626136B2 Architecture for user- and context-specific prefetching and caching of information on portable devices Electricity 17 Active
US8788517B2 Intelligently guiding search based on user dialog Physics 16 Active
US8601598B2 Off-premise encryption of data storage Electricity 16 Active
US8874592B2 Search guided by location and context Physics 15 Active
US7822762B2 Entity-specific search model Physics 11 Active
US9746912B2 Transformations for virtual guest representation Physics 9 Active
US7106725B2 Integration of voice and data channels Electricity 8 Expired
US8402110B2 Remote provisioning of information technology Electricity 8 Active
US8705746B2 Data security in an off-premise environment Electricity 8 Active
US7873620B2 Desktop search from mobile device Physics 7 Active
US10691292B2 Unified presentation of contextually connected information to improve user efficiency and interaction performance Physics 4 Active
US9141704B2 Data management in social networks Physics 3 Active

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